Grief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCB DEDEDE A FGGFFGGF HIJKJI

IA
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On immemorial altitudes augustB
Grief holds her high dominion Bold the feetC
That climb unblenching to that stern retreatC
Whence looking down man knows himself but dustB
There lie the mightiest passions earthward thrustB
Beneath her regnant footstool and there meetC
Pale ghosts of buried longings that were sweetC
With many an abdicated shall and mustB
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For there she rules omnipotent whose willD
Compels a mute acceptance of her chartE
Who holds the world and lo it cannot fillD
Her mighty hand who will be served apartE
With uncommunicable rites and stillD
Surrender of the undivided heartE
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IIA
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She holds the world within her mighty handF
And lo it is a toy for babes to tossG
And all its shining imagery but drossG
To those that in her awful presence standF
As sun confronting eagles o'er the landF
That lies below they send their gaze acrossG
The common intervals of gain and lossG
And hope's infinitude without a strandF
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But he who on that lonely eminenceH
Watches too long the whirling of the spheresI
Through dim eternities descending thenceJ
The voices of his kind no longer hearsK
And blinded by the spectacle immenseJ
Journeys alone through all the after yearsI

Edith Wharton



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